Why would they **** off their existing customers merely to cater to purely theoretical ones? That would be suicide.

NES Store isn't pay to win, everything in there is strictly cosmetic or service orientated and offers no ingame advantage to a single character.

For example multiple character training offers no ingame advantage because it is only possible to log on one character per account.

Players: Here CCP take our money.
CCP: Nah, we're good. Thanks though.

Seriously? That's the kind of scenario you're envisioning?

Free to play has nothing to do with pay to win. This is a magical thing in your head like unicorns and faries with pixie dust (Well there use to be an alliance we called "pixies" so they are "kinda real").

CCP Would be totally fine if their itemshop had

- Plex
- Ships
- New Models
- Clothing
- Alliance space station bling (new models)
- Corporation Space station bling (new models)
- Pos Bling
- Effect bling (Weapons, engines, etc)


These things coupled with a subscription plan that did something like "You can now train two skills at a time on the same single toon per an account" would allow plex to still be valid, and make training awesome.

the subscription part is up for grabs because of the long list of things you can do with it, like "accelerated training rates" similar to that which new players get.

In short, I find anything that is "Time based" or "item shop based" are also totally acceptable (iv seen a few situations where time based systems in RTS are broken) and then you have league of legends which has direct combat related purchases effecting game play, not "pay to win". It is all about how you design it.

Free to play has nothing to do with pay to win.

Free to play has nothing to do with pay to win. This is a magical thing in your head like unicorns and faries with pixie dust (Well there use to be an alliance we called "pixies" so they are "kinda real").

CCP Would be totally fine if their itemshop had

- Plex
- Ships
- New Models
- Clothing
- Alliance space station bling (new models)
- Corporation Space station bling (new models)
- Pos Bling
- Effect bling (Weapons, engines, etc)


These things coupled with a subscription plan that did something like "You can now train two skills at a time on the same single toon per an account" would allow plex to still be valid, and make training awesome.

the subscription part is up for grabs because of the long list of things you can do with it, like "accelerated training rates" similar to that which new players get.

In short, I find anything that is "Time based" or "item shop based" are also totally acceptable (iv seen a few situations where time based systems in RTS are broken) and then you have league of legends which has direct combat related purchases effecting game play, not "pay to win". It is all about how you design it.

Actually, There is nothing wrong with it at all. It works perfectly fine in many other games (like league of legends).

If you can provide an example where one hero in league massively destroys all other hero's because its only "Bought" with "real money" i will give up this point and remove it from the list.

other wise its all based on your "experience" getting repeatedly "raped" by someone in some "pay to win game".

LoL does not have an ingame economy like EvE has. That's the issue.

LoL is also a MOBA not a sandbox MMO. Please stop comparing them.

There is always a place to make free accounts ( to attract new players), but the balance will be hard as hell.
Cyno alts, mining alts, R&D alts, production slots all of this must be excluded from those accounts.

LoL does not have an ingame economy like EvE has. That's the issue.

LoL is also a MOBA not a sandbox MMO. Please stop comparing them.

We are not debating if the game is a moba or has an economy, stop beating around the bush and trying to say that these things have any reflection on the fact that a "item shop" is bad.

Your deflection from the fact that there is many games out there with item shops, trying to hide behind the banner of genre does not prove that item shops are all pay to win, and even if you could prove something like that, that does not make it the case here considering there is "always exceptions to the rule".

your deflection to this is nothing more then a pathetic attempt to invalidate a perfectly rewarding system to both players and studio's a like.

We are not debating if the game is a moba or has an economy, stop beating around the bush and trying to say that these things have any reflection on the fact that a "item shop" is bad.

Your deflection from the fact that there is many games out there with item shops, trying to hide behind the banner of genre does not prove that item shops are all pay to win, and even if you could prove something like that, that does not make it the case here considering there is "always exceptions to the rule".

your deflection to this is nothing more then a pathetic attempt to invalidate a perfectly rewarding system to both players and studio's a like.

We are not debating if the game is a moba or has an economy, stop beating around the bush and trying to say that these things have any reflection on the fact that a "item shop" is bad.

Your deflection from the fact that there is many games out there with item shops, trying to hide behind the banner of genre does not prove that item shops are all pay to win, and even if you could prove something like that, that does not make it the case here considering there is "always exceptions to the rule".

your deflection to this is nothing more then a pathetic attempt to invalidate a perfectly rewarding system to both players and studio's a like.

Never go full Hodor.
Ever.

There is no way to predict how exatcly the market would react to it, but prices would either drop sigificantly due to a massive over-supply, or they would skyrocket because ISK isn't longer the real driving factor behind the economy.